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[Daniel van Vugt <daniel.van.vugt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reopened again. Although the situation definitely got better at the
start of April, font rendering in Unity8 still looks quite poor when
compared to Unity7.

The problem might just be misaligned textures like Unity8 bug 1510382.

** Changed in: harfbuzz (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

** Changed in: ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

** Changed in: ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

** Also affects: qtmir
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: unity8 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Font/text rendering is irregular and not pixel-aligned on low DPI
  screens

Status in QtMir:
  New
Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in freetype package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in harfbuzz package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in qtbase-opensource-src package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in ubuntu-font-family-sources package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntu-ui-toolkit package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This is a Dell Vostro 3550 laptop with a fresh install of 16.04 and
  unity8 Mir session

  the version of qtdeclarative5-qtmir-plugin is
  0.4.7+16.04.20160104-0ubuntu1

  As you can see from the screenshots the text has low details and, in
  the case of indicators descriptions at the top, almost disappears.

  The text could be fixed by using Text.NativeRendering instead of Text.QtRendering for the QML labels on low dpi screens, although text doesn't seem to be the only issue here. The icons are definitely lacking detail as well (QML Image's smoothing is enabled maybe?).
  Also the dots of the infographic don't look like circles at all, they're missing pixels and many of them look like a C more than an O.

  It looks to me like something is setting the wrong resolution, because
  it looks quite bad. But the screenshots are 1366x768 so I think that's
  not the case.

  NOTE: Unity7 looks perfectly fine and detailed

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